Start from the Masheeah--Painful Parting--Chaouch's Tent--A Family Quarrel--Wady Majeeneen--A Rainy Day--Moknee's Wives--Two mad Fellows--Great Ascent of Gharian--Tedious Day's Work--The Castle--View over the Country--Garrison--Troglodytes--Turkish Tax-gathering--Quarrelsome Servants--Proceed over the lofty Plain--Underground Villages--Kaleebah--The Batoum--Geology--A Slave Caravan--Cheerful Blacks--Rows--Oasis of Mizdah--Double Village--Intestine Discords--Interview with the Sheikh Omer--A Pocket Province--A Dream of Good Omen--Quarrels on Quarrels--Character of Fezzanees--A Leopard abroad.
Leave Mizdah--Gloomy Country--Matrimonial Squabbles in the Caravan--"Playing at Powder"--Desert Geology--A Roman Mausoleum--Sport--A Bully tamed--Fatiguing March--Wady Taghijah--Our old Friend the Ethel-Tree--The Waled Bou Seif--Independent Arabs--A splendid Mausoleum--One of the Nagahs foals--Division of a Goat--March over a monotonous Country--Valley of Amjam--Two new Trees--Saluting the New Moon--Sight the Plateau of the Hamadah--Wady Tubooneeah--Travelling Flies--The Desert Hour--A secluded Oasis--Buying Barley--Ghareeah--Roman Remains--Oasian Cultivation--Taxation--Sand-Pillar--Arrangements for crossing the Hamadah--An _Emeute_ in the Caravan--Are compelled to discharge the quarrelsome Ali.
Commence crossing the Hamadah--Last Pillar of the Romans--Travelling in the Desert--Rapid March--Merry Blacks--Dawn--Temperature--Ali returns--Day-travelling--Night-feelings--Animals--Graves of Children--Mirage--Extent of the Plateau--It breaks up--Valley of El-Hasee--Farewell to the Hamadah--Arduous Journey--The Camel-drivers--New Country--Moral and religious Disquisitions--The Chaouches--Reach Edree--Abd-el-Galeel--Description of Edree--Subterranean Dwellings--Playing at Powder--The Kaïd--Arabic Literature--Desertion of the Zintanah--Leave Edree--Sandy Desert--Bou Keta the Camel-driver--Wady El-Makmak--The Lizard--Reach Wady Takadafah--Sand--Another _Embroglio_.
More sandy Desert--Fatiguing March--Water and Herbage--Water-drinking--Sight the Plateau over the Mourzuk--Hot Wind--Arrival in El-Wady--Tuaricks--Laghareefah--Fezzanees--The Chaouches astray--The Sheikh Abd-el-Hady--Description of the Oasis--Tempest--Native Huts--Official Visits--Desert News--Camel-drivers--Ruins of Azerna--Move on--The Kaïd--Modest Requests--Ladies of the Wady--Leave the Oasis--Vast Plain--Instinct of the Camel--Reach Agar--Reception--Precede the Caravan--Reach Mourzuk--Mr. Gagliuffi--Honours paid to the Mission--Acting Pasha--Climate--Route from Tripoli--Its Division into Zones--Rain in the Desert.